Healthtech Pigeon
Like normal healthtech news but, you know, not boring. The team at SomX bring you the audio version of the weekly Healthtech Pigeon newsletter - a panel show with journalists, VCs, podcasters, entrepreneurs, execs and those with a strong opinion to make things interesting. Regular hosts and guests are Dr James Somauroo, Jessica Smith, Belle Taylor, Huw Penson, Jess Farmery from the SomX team. 🐦 Grab the newsletter at www.healthtechpigeon.com 🚀 Learn how SomX can help your healthtech company at www.somx.health
What does the future of healthetch regulation look like?
Jessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Hardian Health's Dr Hugh Harvey.
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Are we headed for a Microsoft monopoly in health AI?
Jessica and Belle from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.
31:04 - Introducing Perplexity Health
35:48 - How AI is Giving Back Time to NHS Healthcare Teams
48:11 - Under 50% of NHS staff receive basic EPR training
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Up to 81% of doctors use AI. So why can't you?
Jessica and James from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.
04:14 - Google wants Fitbit to know your medical history. Sure, why not?
12:24 - Clinicians are using AI, but would prefer patients not to
23:45 - The therapy gap is 1.6 billion people. Limbic wants AI to help
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What is it going to take to see changes in women's health?
Jessica and Belle from SomX chat through all the best news from this week.
The conversation PR isn't having about motherhood
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The role of arts in mental health and wellbeing
James from SomX chats through all the best news from this week with Sarah Ticho from The XR Health Alliance
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Can precision diagnostics be made more accessible?
Jessica from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Christoph Ruedig from Albion VC and Celestin de Wergifosse from Signatur Bio.
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What does "Explainable AI" in healthcare truly mean?
Jessica from SomX chats through all the best news from this week with Hansen Tsui from Sanome.
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Is Apple being cautious, or falling behind in health?
Jessica and Harry from SomX chat through all the best news from this week with Niki Loboda from Whereby and Carlo Alberto Gaetaniello from Serenis.
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Why are scientists using neurons as computers?
Jessica and Harry from SomX explore three stories from the latest edition of the Healthtech Pigeon Newsletter.
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Reliable for Whom? AI & wearables in health
Belle from SomX is joined by Jess Heck and Katrina Baxter-Moore from Jane App, and Andreas Bovens from Whereby. In this episode they delve into this weeks top news picks from the Healthtech Pigeon newsletter.
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Wearable Brain Imaging
James, Jess, and Harry are joined by Patrick Beldon, CEO and Co-Founder at Cortirio, to delve into this weeks neuroscience news and talk about how Cortirio are working on portable brain imaging!
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Designing Telehealth for trust
Jessica welcomes Andreas Bovens and Calvin Bowen from whereby to discuss the evolving landscape of Telehealth and the integration of technology in healthcare.
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Will OpenAI win Consumer Health?
SomX’s James Somauroo, Jess Somauroo, and Harry Salt dive into a week of big news from OpenAI with Dr Harvinder Power, Co-Founder and CEO at Motics.
Join us to unpack ChatGPT Health. The good, the bad, and the ugly.
00:00 - Intro
01:32 - OpenAI Report: AI as a Healthcare Ally + ChatGPT Health
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Is AI making us more lonely?
SomX’s Belle Taylor and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news with Prof. Susan Shelmerdine, Associate Professor of Radiology / AI at UCL Great Ormond St Hospital.
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Inside the Mind of a Healthtech VC
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo interviews Healthtech VC Andrew Elder.
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Menopause diagnostics, rising innovators & healthtech’s 2025 wrapped
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
01:52 - Forbes 30 Under 30
13:20 - Forbes 30 Under 30 Alumnus Develops Diagnostic Tool for Menopause
24:20 - 2025 Wrapped
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The real power of XR for mental health therapy
SomX’s James Somauroo and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news with Ross O'Brien from The XR Health Alliance.
00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Major Report Maps UK’s Extended Reality (XR) Health Market
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Will we see an end to the GLP-1 gold rush?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Belle Taylor dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
12:16 - MANUAL Is In The MONEY
16:10 - Got a Clue? Well Yes, Since You Asked…
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Why is women's health content being censored?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Harry Salt dive into this week's healthtech news with help from Numan's Grace Hatton and SomX's James Somauroo.
00:00 - Intro
03:02 - NHS Job Cuts: The £1 Billion Bureaucracy Bonfire
12:12 - Women's Health Being Shadow Banned?
27:05 - OpenAI Wants To Push Beyond a Core AI Offering
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70% of NHS digital tools have no legal safety sign-off
SomX’s James Somauroo and Curistica's Dr Keith Grimes dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
01:02 - The NHS’s “Wild West” of 10,000 Unchecked Health Apps
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How AI is revolutionising cancer diagnosis
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
02:26 - NHS launches AI-powered tool to speed up prostate cancer diagnosis
16:38 - Do we need AI guardians to protect us from health information overload? // The anatomy of a personal health agent
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What can we learn from the government's new women's health strategy?
SomX’s Belle Taylor and The BMJ's Helen Surana, dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
02:35 - Government announces Women's Health Strategy to be renewed
19:40 - Cyclana Bio raises £5m to boost women's health
29:09 - Scientists develop breakthrough approach to detecting endometriosis in menstrual blood
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Is the future of heart disease management technology first?
SomX’s Belle Taylor and Harry Salt, dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
01:50 - Oura hits $11bn valuation after $900m Series E
18:41 -First look at Hello Heart’s AI assistant for medication management:
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Is ambient voice technology the future of healthcare?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Nick Prentice, healthcare strategist, dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
05:40 - NHS launches virtual hospital
23:05 - Lauxera Capital closes €400M health tech fund, bets big on European innovation going global
35:00 - Fast-growing healthtech platform Heidi raises $65m and boosts valuation to $465m
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What do we lose as virtual healthcare becomes the norm?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
18:40 - NHS launches virtual hospital
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How can telehealth solve healthcare's biggest challenges?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Belle Taylor dive into this week's healthtech news with help from Whereby's Niki Loboda and Hannah Jelliman
00:00 - Intro
02:44 - The State of Virtual Care
33:43 - World’s Top HealthTech Companies of 2025
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What are the benefits of the breast milk microbiome?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news with help from BoobyBiome's Lydia Mapstone.
00:00 - Intro
02:08 - British startup BoobyBiome raises €2.8 million for infant health with breast milk microbiome breakthrough
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What are the benefits of the breast milk microbiome?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and James Somauroo dive into this week's healthtech news with help from BoobyBiome's Lydia Mapstone.
00:00 - Intro
02:08 - British startup BoobyBiome raises €2.8 million for infant health with breast milk microbiome breakthrough
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How do healthcare professionals truly feel about digital health?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and DNV's Stephen McAdam dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
03:53 - Digital Health Gains Still Out of Reach, BMJ Commission Finds
21:12 - Accelerating Digital Health: DNV Ventures invests in Patients Know Best`s global expansion of personal health records
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The ethical dilemmas of AI in healthcare
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Belle Taylor dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
01:48 - Man develops rare condition after ChatGPT query over stopping eating salt
18:25 - Soul Machines unveils empathetic AI ‘Digital Workforce’ for healthcare
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Is ChatGPT worsening mental health crises?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Amy Thomas dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
02:10 - Are AI Chatbots Making Mental Health Crises Worse? // Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI
30:40 - Mounjaro price inequality in full play
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Is tech allowing us to be more human?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo, Amy Thomas and Taffy Kahari dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
01:40 - The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst
18:36 - MND left her without a voice. Eight seconds of scratchy audio gave it back to her
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Preventive healthcare is the future
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo, Amy Thomas and Hollie Ruda are joined dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
02:34 - Beyond the AI buzz: Nina Capital’s critical view on healthtech hype
19:45 - 9 out of 10 Brits changed their lifestyle after clinically-guided at-home blood tests, new study finds
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Why healthtech regulation is sexy
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Amy Thomas are joined Sanome's Benedikt von Thüngen as they dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
01:00 - MEMORI becomes first UK-built, certified software-as-a-medical device for real-time infection prediction
27:03 - ChatGPT adds mental health guardrails after reports of bot feeding people’s delusions
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The challenges facing longevity startups
Daisy, Belle and Hollie from SomX break down the best stories from this week’s newsletter.
00:00 Intro
01:26 Let a breakthrough in measuring body clocks ease the ills of shiftwork
12:19 Why VC-Backed Longevity Startups Are Dying In A $5 Trillion Wellness Market
23:58 This DNA test can predict if a 5-year-old will be obese as an adult
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Can AI chatbots have more emotional intelligence than humans?
SomX’s Amy Thomas, Hollie Ruda and Taffy Kahari dive into this week's healthtech news.
00:00 - Intro
01:04 - Artificial Intelligence, real emotions — AI is more emotionally intelligent than humans, new study finds
14:55 - Medical chatbot firm OpenEvidence raises $210m
25:50 - Black women ‘denied pain relief’ on NHS maternity wards
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Tackling the stigma around obesity
SomX’s Amy Thomas and Daisy Makin dive into this week's healthtech news with Reset Health's Dr Laura Falvey
00:00 - Intro
04:55 - Tandem Health raises $50M Series A to scale its AI scribe across the NHS
19:12 - NHS staff unsettled by patients filming care and posting videos on social media
29:20 - Weight loss jabs 'may protect against dementia and stroke', study suggests
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How can we see real scale in the NHS?
SomX’s Belle Taylor and Huw Penson dive into this week's healthtech news with PocDoc's Steve Roest
00:00 - Intro
02:25 - Tech-led NHS could boost UK economy by £40bn
29:00 - Samsung to buy US health tech firm Xealth in digital health push
42:50 - Comprehensive policies for scaling systemic and equitable integration of digital health technologies
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Is the NHS 10-Year plan worth reading?
SomX’s Jessica Somauroo and Huw Penson dive into the NHS 10 Year Plan with Malte Gerhold and Liam Cahill.
00:00 - Intro
04:00 - 10 Year Health Plan for England: fit for the future
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How is AI helping to speed up diagnosis?
SomX’s Belle Taylor, Andrew Hair and Leed's Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Dr Fahmid Chowdhury dive into the weeks’ healthtech stories.
00:43 - New AI chest X-ray software to speed up diagnosis and improve patient care
21:35 -NHS plans to DNA test all babies to assess disease risk
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